Incompetent Management, No respect for employees - Stylist Belk Employee Review

1.0
Sep 20, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

The only pro I found was that the salon itself was actually very nice.

Cons

The salon manager had no idea how to run a business. The store's policy was that it saw no need to advertise the salon. They want you to stay busy all the time, yet since they don't advertise that there is even a salon in Belk, being busy with clients is impossible. So the manager insists you clean constantly even everything is immaculate. The manager was under pressure to reach unattainable goals & made the stylist miserable when she failed. One day I was even made to walk through the mall with tacky fliers with coupons just so it would look like I was busy. Another day I was watching a haircut by another stylist & found the manager walking up & clapping at me(like I was a dog!) because another stylist was doing a cut &(shock!) hair fell on the floor-- the manager wanted me to sweep while the stylist was cutting. Ridiculous. I could go on forever, but I get ill just thinking about my experience there.

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Cons

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Pros

I loved my job. I’m met so many wonderful people. And the associates couldn’t have been better.

Cons

I hurt myself and had to have surgery, and I was on Worker’s Comp. with limited availability. Because hours were short in operations, they made up this crazy position and wanted me to be ”lead” of the markdown team. I knew that meant for the most part to do go backs. I told them I wasn’t allowed to be on my feet that long and so she said they couldn’t accommodate me and I had to leave. And then the manager had the nerve to call their workers comp and told them I wasn’t coming into work. The management at that time was horrible. But there was a time when I first started working there that to store manager, and the assistant manager were wonderful. We were all so sad they left, but it didn’t take this new manager that I was talking about any time at all to lose almost the entire store associates.

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